last year apple sued samsung in multiple countries and samsung countersued. >>> it is october, we're think being the holidays. americans are expected to spend more during the busiest shopping season of the year but they are also at the same time displaying more caution. the national retail federation says it is expecting sales during the winter holiday season to rise 4.1% this year, more than a percentage point lower than the growth in each of the last two years and it would be the smallest increase we've seen since 2009. the crash came up, people spent less in 2008 and spent more off of that relative basis. retailers depend on the last two months of the year for up to 40% of annual sales and the nrf is predicting merchants to hire between 585,000 and 625,000 holiday season workers. >>> boeing engineers and technical workers rejected a four-year contract offer. they'll return to the bargaining table today to strike a new labor agreement for 23,000 workers. the union and boeing agreed beforehand to resume talks today if the proposed pact was voted down, the current labor agreement exp